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How about this?

Postby Protect and survive » Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:54 pm

How about a extension or something, where after the nuclear attacks you can sort out food rations and save the few survivours by managing evacuation and such.
Locate safer countries that were not involved in the war or had minimum damage and order your people there.
Like you are the pearson in the nuclear bunker that has to give out orders to the surviviours by loadspeaker up above.

Basicly a sort of defcon/management extension pack!
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Postby xander » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:18 pm

Stab! Stab! Stabbity stab stab stab!

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Postby Protect and survive » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:03 pm

Please post worthwhile replys.
PROTECT+SURVIVE
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:09 pm

Please make worthwile suggestions and/or give them good subject lines :)
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Postby Ace Rimmer » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:21 pm

Perhaps I can shed some light on the subject. What xander was trying to say (along with the rest of us)...

"Stab! Stab! Stabbity stab stab stab!" in the context it was used can be translated...

The words that make up the "trail" are a quote:

xander wrote:No, it isn't "just your little idea." Half the people on these boards with less than 10 posts had that idea. They posted it here, without searching to find out if their idea was (a) unique and (b) welcome, posted yet another topic, and were promptly beaten to death with their own audacity.

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Ah the T-Shirt contest, almost makes me want to make another one. :D
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Postby xander » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:51 pm

Protect and survive wrote:Please post worthwhile replys.

Post worthwhile topics, and I will be happy to post worthwhile replies.

IV don't do sequels (with the possible exception of Multiwinia, which isn't really a sequel, anyway). There is not going to be a Defcon 2. Besides, even if there were a Defcon 2 (which there won't be, because everyone knows you can't launch nukes until Defcon 1), or an expansion, or anything like that, the whole point of Defcon is its stark simplicity. It is not meant to be a complex game with resource management and unit production and economies and such. Games like Civilization, Fallout, or Command and Conquer already fill those niches. If you had bothered to read the topics in the Think Tank, you might have even come to that realization. You didn't. Thus, the only worthwhile thing to say to you is:

Stab! Stab! Stabbity stab stab stab!

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Postby tllotpfkamvpe » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:53 pm

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Postby tangostorm » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:01 pm

xander wrote:
Protect and survive wrote:Please post worthwhile replys.

IV don't do sequels (with the possible exception of Multiwinia, which isn't really a sequel, anyway).


Until now..but for the future you can never say
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Postby xander » Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:31 pm

tangostorm wrote:
xander wrote:
Protect and survive wrote:Please post worthwhile replys.

IV don't do sequels (with the possible exception of Multiwinia, which isn't really a sequel, anyway).


Until now..but for the future you can never say

Introversion have stated in the past that they have philosophical objections to sequels. Producing sequels would be a form of selling out. Thus, while I cannot predict the future, I do have some amount of evidence backing up my assertion that IV don't do sequels. So, while I cannot predict the future with 100% certainty, my position is better supported than the position of anyone who suggests that there will be a sequel to Defcon.

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Postby All American Mobster » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:16 pm

All American Mobster wrote:As long as its a place he can put someone down, hes there :lol: Im kidding xander



-$tanley


:lol: Although the shirt is pretty funny.



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Postby xander » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:16 pm

Why are you quoting yourself?

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Postby Protect and survive » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:24 pm

im talking about an extension pack not a seqwel! JESUS CHRIST!
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Postby Xocrates » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:58 pm

An expansion that turns the game into something completely different?
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Postby xander » Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:05 pm

Protect and survive wrote:im talking about an extension pack not a seqwel! JESUS CHRIST!

What, pray tell, is the difference between an expansion pack and a sequel? If my understanding of such a thing is correct, an expansion pack is something that a company releases which uses the same engine, but adds a little bit of extra functionality. Such things are generally released by companies so that they can make money off of very little work. In which case, that is selling out even more than a sequel is. Thus, it is even less likely.

Also, what you are talking about would require fundamental changes to the engine, so I don't see how you can call it an "expansion pack" rather than a "sequel."

So, to be clear:

Stab! Stab! Stabbity stab stab stab!

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Postby Protect and survive » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:01 am

Fine, i should have probably posted this in the mod projects. Might be a good mod though!

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